Scientific American Magazine Vol 118 Issue 8

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 118, Issue 8

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Features

A Ship Within a Ship

[designing a merchant ship to be resistant to torpedo attack]

The War Behind the Front, Alien Crews on Our Merchantships, and more

[Lead editorial is about the perceived German propaganda efforts worldwide]

Building a Dam of Concrete Slabs

An Interesting Type of Construction Adopted in the Twin Cities River Improvement

J. F. Springer

Blowing Up the Enemy

Large-Scale Mining Operations as a Weapon of Offensive Warfare
[article on mining operations, with reference to mines on Messines Ridge and the Castelletto in the Dolomites]
[the cover image of the issue is associated with this article]

Strategic Review of the War, February 12th, 1918

By Our Military Expert

The World in Miniature

Why Models Are Built and How They Are Built

World Markets for American Manufactures- February 23, 1918

A department devoted to the extension of American trade in foreign lands

William W. Sniffin

Guide Carriage for Laying Large Sewage Concrete Pipes in Tunnels

Frank C. Perkins

The Three-Decker and the Dreadnought

[article on the costs of building battleships]

Percival A. Hislam

Departments

Correspondence- February 23, 1918

Inventions New and Interesting- February 23, 1918

Recently Patented Inventions- February 23, 1918

Notes and Queries - February 23, 1918